Brian Stretch wrote:
>> Has anyone successfully migrated a 64-bit FC3 machine to a nForce4 >> chipset (PCI-Express) motherboard? I get a kernel panic very quickly >> during bootup, right after it fails to mount the drives (boot drive >> is Serial ATA, nForce controller). There are two PCI errors too. The >> weird thing is that I can boot linux rescue off the FC3 DVD and read >> my drives just fine. I had to move my HDs back to my old system to >> get online so I'm hoping someone can at least tell me if they have >> successfully run FC3 on a nForce4 chipset system. > > Maybe an issue with fstab?? What's the chipset on the nForce... > Silicon Image??? In that case, FC kernels have a MAJOR flaw: they > include both the drivers there are for it ATA and SATA... This is > wrong because these two drivers are MUTUALLY exclusive. I haven't > known a single FC official kernel that properly supports SII 311x > controller. One reason to build your own.
The nForce4 chipset provides its own SATA controller. The Neo4 does have a Silicon Image SATA controller in addition to that but I have it disabled in the BIOS (there is no hardware jumper to disable it). The rescue DVD mentions loading a sata_nv driver or something like that.
I could try enabling the Silicon Image controller and moving the drive to that, but I'm not sure that's wise?
I also have an IDE drive plugged in... hmm, could that be causing problems? In my old system the SATA drive was on a Promise controller and the IDE on a VIA chipset controller.
